History |
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2003 |
FALC (originally called, "the Funding Agencies for Linear Colliders") was established with the view of having an in-depth understanding on R&D funding status towards a sub- TeV linear collider and sharing the prospects of its future. |
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2004 |
By 2004, funding agencies from Canada, CERN, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, UK and the US were represented. The Chairs of ICFA and its subcommittee ILCSC have been invited to attend FALC meetings ever since the International Linear Collider (ILC) project moved into an engineering design phase and the SCRF technology was chosen for the ILC. |
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2005 |
The Director of the Global Design Effort (GDE) has been invited to attend FALC meetings ever since the GDE was established. With a request from the communities, FALC formed a Resource Group to oversee the GDE Common Fund. |
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2006 |
FALC acronym remained unchanged, but its name was changed to "Funding Agencies for Large Colliders". |
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2007 |
The Terms of Reference (TOR) of FALC was agreed by the FALC members. |
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2008 |
FALC's first public report was issued. |
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2010 |
FALC's second public report was issued. |
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2013 |
FALC revisited the Term of Reference (TOR) for the next three years.
FALC's third public repor was issued. FALC published a Report on GDE. |